Jim Gray asked,
| So far no one has spoken up: does ANYONE own a Sony 940 deck?
Last I heard, none had left Japan for distributors yet. I'm on the waiting
list for one at Video Direct and very eager to get it, less for the longer
playback than for Scale Factor Edit.
| I wanted to know if it will still record at mono,
So do I. I hope it will. I'd rather record 160 minutes of monaural material
as one copy at full rate than as two identical channels at half-rate, or 320
minutes of mono material as one copy at half-rate than as two redundant chan-
nels at quarter-rate.
| ... and here's another
| question: if you record on the new, long play lower-bitrate speed, can
| that disc be played on other models, or only on new equipment with the
| long play feature?
Word is that it will not play on models that don't support the slower speeds;
more likely, I think it will play back incorrectly. Apparently one can mix
tracks of different bit rates on a single disc and a full-rate only unit can
play the full-rate tracks. Further rumor is that there are portable players
coming out soon that will support the slower speeds, but I can't remember
where I heard that.
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